Although the thought of the death penalty scares me like hell (from my recent trip overseas which went via malaysia "any person caught with drugs will face the mandatory death penalty"), I do not think it is the right answer. Sure, it would be one way to get rid of the overcrowding in gaols, however, if you think about it in a non-religious sense (minus the whole hell debate) Death is the easy way out. You execute somebody for murder of the like, and their pain is over in under a minute (I don't know exact statistics, so don't pull me up on that).... but if you enforce a "never to be released" or "life" sentence, then they have to live in a small, shitty little cell for the rest of their life. In actual fact... that thought scares me much more than death